India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) has improved steadily during the last 10 years. The system used to be most ineffective and corruption-ridden, with leakages of around 50 per cent at the ...

Replacing PDS with direct income support is the fiscally prudent, socially progressive path that India should take ...

In general SNS, data such as posts, likes, and follows are stored by the SNS operating company, and if you wanted to stop using that company's services, it meant quitting the SNS itself. On the other ...

Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly advocated as an alternative to the Public Distribution System (PDS). The proponents of cash transfers typically begin from the assumption that the PDS is a proven ...

New evidence shows the first-ever pictures capturing the birth of a pair of planets orbiting the star PDS 70 are in fact authentic. Using a new infrared pyramid wavefront sensor for adaptive optics ...

Aadhaar-enabled electronic public distribution system (e-PDS) will be launched in eight districts of Jharkhand on Monday and across the state by October, bringing to an end the paper-intensive manual ...

Kaushik Basu, chief economic advisor in the finance ministry, foresees a political consensus emerging on subsidy reform. The central component of the new regime is the delivery of goods to the poor ...

Maharashtra Food and Civil Supplies Minister Girish Mahajan has said that after implementation of the biometric system in PDS, fair price shops in the state would be allowed to sell some more items ...